单词 | rapide |
释义 | rapiden. In France: a fast intercity train, an express. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > passenger train > express or non-stop express train1841 lightning express1844 express1848 limited express1860 rapide1868 limited1869 night express1877 non-stop1909 limited train1913 Blue Train1922 rapido1939 1868 C. P. Roney Rambles on Railways iv. 112 The ‘Rapide’, the night mail train from Paris to Marseilles, completes 537 miles in 15 hours 45 minutes. 1893 Century Mar. 652/2 From Marseilles to Avignon, by the rapide, the journey is made in precisely two hours. 1904 A. E. W. Mason Truants i. 14 No ‘Rapide’ passed from France on its way to Italy during his leisure hours. 1923 W. J. Locke Moordius & Co. xxi. 288 She had lost the rapide from Cannes, the only train she knew of. 1946 G. Millar Horned Pigeon xix. 306 They only appeared to be stopping passengers who were catching the rapide for Marseilles. 1979 Business Traveller Mar.–Apr. 60/1 The landing..took us within 50 yards of the connecting ‘rapide’. 1991 A. Myers Murder at Masque viii. 172 The Nice Express rapide was pulling in. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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